CiviCRM vs Panorama : Which is a better fit?

Jonathan J

Owner

Excellent event registration and membership management at a price that can't be equaled. Best of all, it works in and with our client's websites.

Richard R

President

It was hard to upgrade if too many releases went by since you were supposed to do one at a time. I almost had a database disaster during one of the updates and lost a couple days to recover the data.

Jonathan J

Owner

CiviCase brings case management into to application and CiviVolunteer helps you keep track of the eager beavers who want to help your cause.

I have had some trouble using the scheduled mailings feature. Once the mailing didn't go out at all.

I loved how expansive the system was. I liked that I could use it as both a record of donors and donations etc. and as a way to process and track payments/money received.

That said, a person who understands the database can bypass the worst of it -- however, we could do this, and the closest competing product priced itself out of our reach by an excessive import fee.

The community is fairly responsive and keeps an active release cycle as well as an extension community which build meaningful extensions to functionality.

It's built on soon-to-be deprecated software, so investing in its deployment might be a little risky.

Bidding for Good is easy to setup with online auction items and the bidding aspect appears to be easy to use by our bidders so that is a big help.

Rebecca Lynn R

Eastern Northeast Region Sales Associate

I had a lot of trouble this year loading pictures to illustrate my items. I've never encountered so many error messages as I did this year.

The overall experience has been positive and does help us keep track of our donor database and donor amounts, which will help us create a capital campaign and other fund-raising opportunities.

The Smartlists for generating reports are absolutely horrible. I have been using Giftworks desktop for over 13 years.

It's been a great experience, especially having help from [sensitive content hidden],Customer Success Manager, She is extremely thorough and knowledgeable and was able to help me with what I needed.

Renee R

Operations Director

THis product is terrible. We will never use it again.

One of the best features is the ability to copy over previous donated items and revise for the current year. Since we have been using Bidding for Good for over 10 years this saves me a lot of time.

The cloud version was released before it was ready and it is a train wreck.